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Bovril and Biscuits

Jonathan Parry

  • The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846-86 by Theodore Hoppen

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Jonathan Parry is the author of The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain. He is a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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